Tightly coupled systems are unmaintainable
Yet another example of why I believe this:
Microsoft told me to update to IE7, so I did. To test something in IE6, I’m installing MS Virtual PC 2004 (provided free by MS), and running an image of Windows XP that has IE6 (also provided free by MS). I am following this article from the IEBlog: IE6 and IE7 Running on a Single Machine.
I downloaded both files, and now all I have to do is debug the installation of both. MS Virtual PC thinks I don’t have a checkbox checked, but my network settings disagree. Windows doesn’t think the compressed OS image I downloaded from Microsoft is a valid exe file.
I appreciate that Microsoft is trying to help me out, but making IE7 a separate program from IE6 would be much more helpful.
I guess I’ll try rebooting.
ryan said,
February 8, 2007 @ 2:09 pm
Rebooting and re-downloading the image fixed the “invalid exe file” bit.
ryan said,
February 13, 2007 @ 12:48 am
I gave up on the virtual machine. MS Virtual PC couldn’t properly read my network settings, and the image I downloaded unzipped to be a .vhd file, and apparently MS VPC wants .vmc files.
heikko said,
March 29, 2007 @ 11:32 am
The virtual machine solution sounded a bit heavy, so it reminded me this:
For all your multiple IE installation pleasures: http://labs.insert-title.com/labs/Multiple-IEs-in-Windows_article795.aspx
engtech said,
March 29, 2007 @ 12:07 pm
I blogged about doing pretty much the same thing a while ago and one of my readers pointed me to IE 6 standalone: http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/32bit/standalone